When Bee came back from her run the next day, she heard what she thought might be the rest of her cabin talking about she and Kostos. As she came closer, she knew she was right.

"You know what I heard?" Samantha added.

"What?" asked Nell intently.

"I heard that he couldn't find a job in Greece because he had a bad reputation."

"I heard that he could have been a soccer champion!"

"I know the truth," Bee smiled as she got close to the gossipers, "Kostos's grandmother is the best friend of my friend's grandma. I know practically everything that has happened within the last 3 years to him," she threw her water bottle on the ground, grabbed a towel and toiletries and went to shower.

The next practice day, the team assembled on the field. One person was obviously missing. It was their coach. They stood around for five minutes before Eric came up to their group.

"Your coach Kostos had a family emergency to deal with," he announced, "I will be running practices with your team and mine until his return," there was a pause, "Bee! Take your team on a warm up run. Its your decision when you stop."

Bee knew most of the girls were not in as good of shape as she was. She ran them ragged. While Eric's team did agility drills, Bee's group complained because they were still running.

"Come on you guys! Make Coach proud here. He trusts us to do this. We need to band together! We can not be a team divided. No one can win that way! We're a team. I know it is cliché, but there no way one person can win for the entire team."

"We've ran at least two miles!" a girl near the back complained.

"We're running another minute for each person who complains," Bee warned. After that, no one said a word. They finished running about two minutes later, and the girls collapsed onto the ground. They drank down all their water. One girl even threw up.

"I know you're all drained, but we're going to do one more exercise. I need two people to each grab a soccer ball. We are going to pass clean, crisp passes to each other for a half hour, then you will be free to go. Form a circle."

Bee stayed after practice to get more details from Eric.

"It wasn't his wife or kids I hope!" Bee exclaimed after sitting and waiting a half hour for Eric's practice to be over with.

"Its his family back in Greece. Kostos's grandfather has been ill the past few years, and he has taken a turn for the worst again. I don't think that Kostos will be coming back this summer."

"So whats gonna happen?" Bee had so much concern for Kostos, she had forgotten that she hated Eric.

Eric shook his head, "I don't know. They can't make me go on running practices for two different teams at the same time. I couldn't do two practices at different times of days either. The camp has me run ragged as it is."

Bee saw that Eric was exhausted. In addition to his duties of the first summer, he had cafeteria duty five times a week. She got the urge to hug him, and thats what she did. He needed someone to help him. She didn't know what kind of help he needed, but he needed something.

Eric's eyes grew wide. He knew he should push her away, but he needed someone to care for him. Not that Bee was the right person at all, but she was someone.

"Lets go talk to Connie. Kostos has been at home for a while. He left on a flight right after practice yesterday. He said he'd call when he knew how bad it was."

"Okay," Bee replied quietly.

Connie hadn't heard anything yet.